Despite business pundits’ claims that we’re living in volatile times, Greg Satell argues that businesses have never been safer than they are today. While industry fledglings are free to try and disrupt the big corporations with innovative products, they may not be able to do so easily. With lobbying expenditures more than doubling since 1998, corporate taxes decreasing, and antitrust regulations becoming “virtually non-existent”, businesses seem to have shifted their focus from innovation into ensuring a more favourable regulatory environment and keeping new market entrants out. Read full article here
